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My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.
like Google Reader, this was probably not a core part of their business.
Unlike Google Reader, this product was replaced with a newer (and, IMO, better) alternative, Google Photos. Albums you had in Picasa aren't gone, they're just accessible through the new UI. Why should Google maintain two competing UIs for the same product? [these opinions are my own, not necessarily those of my employer, Google]
Anyone knows a good desktop app to organize photo like Picasa that works for Windows/Linux/OSX? Specifically there are a few things I like from Picasa: 1. Import files to folder based on picture dates e.g.: c:\pictures\2016-02-12\P0221314.jpg 2. Import videos from mobile devices and display in the right orientation for example: I have mobile devices and I take movies in different orientation: vertical or horizontal,…
ACDSee is very good but not cheap.
Windows Photo Gallery is great as a free Windows program, but isn't being updated, so I assume it is going the same way as Picasa...
I don't use Picasa or Google Photos, I just funnel stuff via DropBox and OneDrive.
My wife and I take a lot of pictures on our smartphones. What service can I pay for that will: - Automatically upload our pictures from our smartphone - Keep them private, viewable only to use, or family members. - Nice gallery feature. - Easy to export all data in one go. I will pay cold hard cash for this. My wife will decapitate me if I lose our backup pictures of our kids when they were babies.
The photostation app backups my cellphone photos to the NAS, I also have daily glacier backups and backup to my home desktop regularly.
The only caveat is that due to security, I restricted web access to the nas storage, so that the pictures are only backed up when the cellphones are connected to my house network.
Open Source Picasa Google, release it instead of letting him die instead of forcing poor users into your identity crysis.
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Picasa web albums has hardly disappeared. It was replaced by Google Photos (then Google+ photos) a couple years ago. They left the old interface around for years to allow people to transition over at their own pace, you can't really expect a better migration path than that.
How long before Google+ bites the dust? Sounds ludicrous, right? Until it happens. Lesson is: either pay for it, or support open source.
Require open source.
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It's unfortunately hard to make money on your software if it's free. (Assuming your primary interest is making software, not providing support.) Personally, I'm going to try open-sourcing my retail software a) once sales goals have been met, and b) without the art assets. Maybe that would be a good compromise.
I haven't really seen this done but couldn't Google pour money in to developing very high quality GPL'd libraries for say.. C++ or Python - becoming the defacto standard libraries. If other's want to use them in their closed source projects they'd have to pay licenses to Google, however internally they can use them in their closed source code since they own the rights to it. The trick would be get that critical mass…
Anything that makes it easier to develop native software (which 'won't-suddenly-disappear' software has to be) is in direct conflict with Google's strategic interests (Chrome, ChromeOS) and their bottom line.